This Wife’s Prayer

Less than five months after Dave’s decision to leave his position at Grace, Dave is settling into his cowboy job in Colorado and I have a whole ton of coaching clients in Pennsylvania.   Joel and I will move into our PA condo next week and my life of solitude comes to a close.  We have a pending contract on our house in Illinois so those chapters of our life are coming to an end.  I am making a list of things to do together when Dave comes to PA in the fall.  Washington’s Crossing, the Jersey shore, Pearl Buck’s house, the train into Philly, the bus to NYC for Wednesday half-price Broadway shows, jazz in local bars, a long hike along the Delaware River, dinner with Bunny’s aunt and uncle, a long weekend in the upper northeast in the fall, and definitely the Cubs vs the Philly’s next year.  Maybe we will become hockey fans and cheer for the Flyer’s. Dave is making a list of things to show me when I make a trip to Bear Basin Ranch to celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary.  He assures me there is a horse that I will not mind too much. 

As I sat in my new PCA church home this a.m., listening to a fine message of truth, I missed the creativity my husband brings to a church service.  Dave has a gift that he must not stifle.  He has worked hard to develop that gift into a honed and remarkable skill that has resulted in immeasureable eternal benefit.  He is a thinker and an artist.  He has become a speaker and a presenter.  It is this wife’s prayer that God will place my husband in an environment where his deep convictions and unique abilities will be lived out fully expressed to the glory of God, the edification of the church, and the drawing of many to follow Christ.  This adventure is not ending….no way.  It is only beginning.